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Breakdown of the sensible Missouri Compromise, which had kept the peace for thirty years.
This was caused by the admission of California to the Union as one huge state, which extended so far on either side of the Missouri line that both sides claimed it.
The Missouri Compromise had to be replaced with an awkward deal, including the vigorous enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act, with official slave-catchers hunting down runaways. This angered the Abolitionists and gave them a higher profile, helped further by the publication of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.
One well-meant attempt at peace-broking was to give each new state a chance to vote whether to be slave or free, but the first time it was tried (Kansas), this led to shocking cases of voter-intimidation by terrorists from outside the state.
After the inflammatory statement by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case (that a black man did not qualify as a citizen and had no business suing a white man), John Brown's attempt to arm the slaves for a general rebellion, and Lincoln's final rejection of the Crittenden Compromise on the grounds that it would have allowed some extension of slavery, war was inevitable.
Framing of the Constitution - the section on slavery confusingly worded.
Invention of the cotton-gin - enabling huge increase in cotton exports.
Louisiana Purchase - North and South disagree on status of new territories.
Missouri Compromise - slavery permitted South of one particular line of latitude.
Nullification crisis - South Carolina refuses to pay 'Northern tax on South'.
Compromise of 1850 - unsatisfactory deal over admission of California.
Kansas votes on slavery - intimidation of voters, accusations of rigging.
Dred Scott decision - Supreme Court declares slavery legal all over USA.
Lincoln elected - Southern Democrats call for breakaway Confederacy
Crittenden Compromise - Rejected because it would allow extension of slavery.
- Five of the events leading to the American Civil War are:
- Slavery in the south,
- Establishment of the Whig party,
- The election of Lincoln as president,
- Too much power held by rebellious southern states, and
- Disagreement on slaves (ex. whether slaves count or not in census when deciding on House of Represenatives members' limit for each state)
Compromise of 1850 - including the unpopular Fugitive Slave Act, brought in to appease the South for the admission of California as free soil.
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) - an attempt to introduce local voting on the slavery issue. It led to bloodshed in Kansas.
Dred Scott decision (1857) - verdict by the Supreme Court that declared slavery legal in every state of the Union according to the Constitution.
The John Brown raid (1859) - an attempt to raid the Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, to arm the slaves for a nationwide rebellion.
Lincoln's election victory (1860) - there would be no new slave-states, so the South would always be outvoted in Congress.
The economic and social differences between the North and the South,the states versus federal rights,the fight between Slave and Non-Slave State Proponents,the growth of the Abolition Movement and the election of Abraham Lincoln are the five events that led to the civil war.
the answer is slavery, taxes, spliting of the countries, and I'm not sure about the last one, sorry guys =/
Some big events that lead to the Civil War were, The Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's Raid, and the Election of 1860.
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